tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post5588356560914220467..comments2024-02-24T05:19:10.949-05:00Comments on Durham-in-Wonderland: Tracey Cline: Purge Ahead?kcjohnson9http://www.blogger.com/profile/09625813296986996867noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-36624015854831723202009-01-12T20:17:00.000-05:002009-01-12T20:17:00.000-05:00It would be comical, if not so serious -- how many...It would be comical, if not so serious -- how many black "civil servants" are proving their most detested stereotypes to be more accurate than most folks will acknowledge.river rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04367729188948782171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-44764202977706180632008-12-24T10:57:00.000-05:002008-12-24T10:57:00.000-05:00Cline's missive is just further proof that Durham ...Cline's missive is just further proof that Durham is in deed a "wonderland" and that the inmates are running the asylum. When will common sense again pervade the region and the denizens of Durham County storm the barricades and demand a revolution? Perhaps there will be those who will reflect on events in France 220 years ago this next year and decide that the time has come for action.<BR/>cksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-54711991787769399392008-12-23T11:52:00.000-05:002008-12-23T11:52:00.000-05:00Geeze Deb-What if it turns out KC is a Pisces too?...Geeze Deb-<BR/>What if it turns out KC is a Pisces too?<BR/><BR/>BTW- what is your sign KC?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-62786432534578045942008-12-22T14:41:00.000-05:002008-12-22T14:41:00.000-05:00TO (12:44 AM)--I noticed her signature as well.Ver...TO (12:44 AM)--<BR/><BR/>I noticed her signature as well.<BR/><BR/>Very artistic and creative.<BR/><BR/>And this might be the only positive thing I can say about Cline.<BR/><BR/>Typical Piscean. Overly emotional and <I>sensitive</I>, with very little backbone. Wishy-washy and dishonest.<BR/><BR/>Cline and Mikey---a deep-dish-stubborn Virgo---made quite a team.<BR/><BR/>The Emilio and Gloria Estefan duo of the Durham justice system!<BR/><BR/>That's my holiday astrological analysis.Debrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04567454727276881424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-36332754212857643652008-12-22T13:40:00.000-05:002008-12-22T13:40:00.000-05:00Ha!<A HREF="http://blogs.newsobserver.com/campusnotes/duke-employees-get-an-extra-day-off" REL="nofollow">Ha!</A>Debrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04567454727276881424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-16041607500509831842008-12-22T00:44:00.000-05:002008-12-22T00:44:00.000-05:00Anybody got a handwriting analysis bent? Take a ...Anybody got a handwriting analysis bent? Take a shot at Traci's signature. Interesting!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-610471343564491482008-12-21T22:27:00.000-05:002008-12-21T22:27:00.000-05:00Yet another galling development in Durham. Thanks ...Yet another galling development in Durham. Thanks for posting the web site and Q&A, Deborah. Ms. Cline may not be transparent about her role in the Duke case, but her web site and Q&A were pretty revealing. <BR/><BR/>Observer<BR/><BR/>PS As a present to yourself during the holidays, pick up the non-fiction book Three Cups of Tea if you can and read it. Merry, merry to all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-38611632182320666422008-12-21T17:44:00.000-05:002008-12-21T17:44:00.000-05:00Anon @ 12:32 @ 12/20 writes:""Cline’s demand that ...Anon @ 12:32 @ 12/20 writes:<BR/><BR/><I>""Cline’s demand that all current employees<BR/>of the D.A.’s office re-apply for their position"<BR/><BR/>or "demanding that they reapply for their positions?"<BR/><BR/>Where does it say this in the above letter?"</I><BR/><BR/>Gee, what part of <I>"Colleagues ... I will have to make some <B>hard personnel decisions</B> in the next few weeks. <B>If you would like to be part</B> of this most important endeavor, please e-mail at [my private personal, e-mail address, not subject to public examination] www.clinei@aol.com by December 12, 2008."</I> do you think her "colleagues" didn't understand?<BR/><BR/>Never mind that the e-mail address as listed in her letter isn't an e-mail address at all. It's not a web site, either. <BR/><BR/>Cline isn't very bright and obviously doesn't understand the difference between a web address: www.xxxx.com (URL) and an e-mail address: xxx@xxx.com (e-mail), but I think her "colleagues" understood the message that they have to "reapply for their positions."<BR/><BR/>(insert eye roll here)<BR/><BR/>One SpookOne Spookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00592774438681904368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-64185444148002048182008-12-21T15:10:00.000-05:002008-12-21T15:10:00.000-05:00Surely Cline will fall on her own sword given enou...Surely Cline will fall on her own sword given enough time.You just can't change the spots on this leopard can you ?<BR/><BR/>Durham it would seem, is infested with dishonor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-37872433792361917312008-12-21T11:17:00.000-05:002008-12-21T11:17:00.000-05:00Anon: 12:32 on 12/20The demand is in the fact tha...Anon: 12:32 on 12/20<BR/><BR/>The demand is in the fact that Cline makes it clear that she is recruiting a new team" only those who submit an application will be considered. Those who do not will be assumed to not be a part of her team that is committed to pursuing the goals to which the citizens of Durham elected her to pursue. Therefore, it follows that if one currently is employed in her office, one must re-apply for one's position, otherwise one will find himself or herself at the Unemployment Office.<BR/>cksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-75417899266648394612008-12-21T09:55:00.000-05:002008-12-21T09:55:00.000-05:00From the N&O:Blog touts CooperAn anonymous blo...From the N&O:<BR/><BR/><BR/><I>Blog touts Cooper<BR/><BR/>An anonymous blogger is trying to draft Attorney General Roy Cooper to run for the U.S. Senate seat held by Richard Burr.<BR/>Started on Nov. 15 -- just 11 days after the attorney general won his third term -- the Draft Coop blog aims to get the Democrat in the race.<BR/>The blog notes that Cooper won the most votes of any state Democrat in 2008 and argues that he was an effective legislator in the state Senate. A similar blog unsuccessfully attempted to draft Miller for a U.S. Senate run this year.<BR/>In an e-mail message to Dome, the blogger, reportedly a Democrat occasionally active in the party, claims never to have met Cooper and to have no personal stake in the issue.<BR/>"I'd rather not go into why I'm remaining anonymous (that would kind of defeat the purpose), but I will say that I have no connection to the Department of Justice or to Coop himself," the e-mail message reads. "I don't know how long I'll run the blog -- probably until Coop says that he's running or not!"</I>Debrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04567454727276881424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-55502870514515831832008-12-21T01:21:00.000-05:002008-12-21T01:21:00.000-05:00Like OJ is still trying to find the real killers, ...Like OJ is still trying to find the real killers, I think Cline is just trying to find the true enablers of The Hoax. /sarcAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-60666795198220083852008-12-20T13:27:00.000-05:002008-12-20T13:27:00.000-05:00Following up to Bill Anderson's comment - I spoke ...<I>Following up to Bill Anderson's comment - I spoke a couple of days ago with a very senior professor in my university, who used to be at Duke.<BR/><BR/>He said the atmosphere in Duke and in Durham was "poisonous" and that Nifong would probably have gotten a conviction of the players - he would have done no worse for himself than a hung jury if he had been able to get the case to trial.<BR/><BR/>12/19/08 8:09 PM</I><BR/><BR/>Thanks for the comments. Had the powers that be at Duke and Durham actually cared about justice, there would have been no indictments and certainly no trial. After Steel and Brodhead decided that it was "best for Duke" that this railroad go forward, the die was cast.<BR/><BR/>It is hard for me to imagine people actually being so dishonest and so heartless as to want people to be framed for false crimes, yet that is what the "leaders" of Duke and Durham did. One can say they decided out of cowardice, but I think they decided so because they are dishonest people.<BR/><BR/>By kowtowing to the left and the NAACP in Durham, the leaders at Duke can more easily fashion their own radical agenda for the university.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-44507032280223798772008-12-20T13:09:00.000-05:002008-12-20T13:09:00.000-05:00Another heroine with Durham ties, no less.I found ...Another heroine with Durham ties, no less.<BR/><BR/>I found <A HREF="http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/english/faculty/facalpha/young.html" REL="nofollow">this woman</A> being touted on a blog of someone in the academy.<BR/><BR/>With admissions standards tanking at Duke as well as other universities, this woman's brand of "scholarship" is to where things will be descending if people don't wake up and changes do not occur.<BR/><BR/>Check out her then-forthcoming book published by Duke University Press in 2006---the year of Duke campus radicals that will live in infamy---called <I>Soul Power: Cultural Radicalism of the U.S. Third World Left</I>.Debrahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04567454727276881424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-57884696028281518812008-12-20T12:32:00.000-05:002008-12-20T12:32:00.000-05:00"Cline’s demand that all current employees of the ..."Cline’s demand that all current employees <BR/>of the D.A.’s office re-apply for their position"<BR/><BR/>or "demanding that they reapply for their positions?"<BR/><BR/>Where does it say this in the above letter?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-56184893182026704262008-12-20T11:54:00.000-05:002008-12-20T11:54:00.000-05:00"He said the atmosphere in Duke and in Durham was ...<I>"He said the atmosphere in Duke and in Durham was "poisonous" and that Nifong would probably have gotten a conviction of the players - he would have done no worse for himself than a hung jury if he had been able to get the case to trial."</I><BR/><BR/>Yet the people there probably consider themselves morally superior to the people of Alabama in 1931 (i.e., "Scottsboro II")Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-72274629389179076522008-12-20T10:28:00.000-05:002008-12-20T10:28:00.000-05:00Transparency would appear to be a fraud in Durham ...Transparency would appear to be a fraud in Durham as it is in so many other places in this country. The only thing that the young men had going for them in the lacrosse hoax was just that . . . it was a hoax . . . nothing and everything . . . was there anything that this solicitor's office got right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-10152241054912991662008-12-20T07:50:00.000-05:002008-12-20T07:50:00.000-05:00Since when (duh, I forgot, this is the Kingdom of ...Since when (duh, I forgot, this is the Kingdom of Durham) does an elected official send out letters on personal stationery to the employees of a city office demanding that they reapply for their positions?<BR/>Did the citizens of Durham realize that when electing her to office they had installed a Queen? Where are the revolutionaries who will take control and re-establish a democracy in Durham?<BR/>cksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-65859602314446550842008-12-19T22:27:00.000-05:002008-12-19T22:27:00.000-05:00The Durham Cty. DA Office always struck me as the ...The Durham Cty. DA Office always struck me as the employer of last resort. Hard to imagine taxpayers actually pay for this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-28457201395743220332008-12-19T20:09:00.000-05:002008-12-19T20:09:00.000-05:00Following up to Bill Anderson's comment - I spoke ...Following up to Bill Anderson's comment - I spoke a couple of days ago with a very senior professor in my university, who used to be at Duke.<BR/><BR/>He said the atmosphere in Duke and in Durham was "poisonous" and that Nifong would probably have gotten a conviction of the players - he would have done no worse for himself than a hung jury if he had been able to get the case to trial.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-7664885743198781672008-12-19T19:48:00.000-05:002008-12-19T19:48:00.000-05:00This memo says "this office is dysfunctional and y...This memo says "this office is dysfunctional and you are all presumed guilty of ineptitude until you prove your innocence".<BR/><BR/>Which, I think, is quite apt.rabbithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12371229772899723851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-8145801020231857872008-12-19T19:21:00.000-05:002008-12-19T19:21:00.000-05:00I wonder if the voters of Durham truly were aware ...I wonder if the voters of Durham truly were aware of her role in the lacrosse hoax? If they were aware then her election to the D.A. post foreshadows a dark future for the Justice system in Durham .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-35486439481554858632008-12-19T17:34:00.000-05:002008-12-19T17:34:00.000-05:00I notice that her letterhead is supposed to be inv...I notice that her letterhead is supposed to be invocative of the American flag: It's red, white, and blue. It's even got red and white stripes. But its star is not white as on the American flag, but red. Why does she use a red star instead of a white one?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-16603532800056020372008-12-19T16:59:00.000-05:002008-12-19T16:59:00.000-05:00Is Cline a Communist?Is Cline a Communist?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-21978835489629321952008-12-19T15:37:00.000-05:002008-12-19T15:37:00.000-05:00Does anyone know why official business for the DA ...Does anyone know why official business for the DA is done on stationery that says:<BR/><BR/>"Paid for the Citizens for Cline Committee" ?<BR/><BR/>And... why does she have to "make some hard personnel decisions"? Is the DA's office facing layoffs?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com